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The Tuppenny Child

The Tuppenny Child
  • Author(s): Glenda Young
  • Location(s): Ryhope, Sunderland
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1919

‘She’s not worth more than tuppence, that child!’ Those are the words that haunt Sadie Linthorpe. She is the talk of Ryhope when she arrives there, aged seventeen, alone, seeking work and a home in the pit village. But...

The Village on the Hill

The Village on the Hill
  • Author(s): Annie Doyle
  • Location(s): Gateshead, Bournemouth, London, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Early 20th century

Three women caught up in three global disasters. Will tragedy reunite them or tear them apart for ever? Bournemouth 1912 – Ena Leighton prepares for a new life with her aunt and uncle in a beautiful house with a...

The Vixen’s Scream

The Vixen’s Scream
  • Author(s): John Dean
  • Location(s): North Pennines
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Are harrowing screams heard in the night, the cries of a fox, or worse? When a woman from London reports the screams of a girl during the night, knowing better, the local police in the Pennines think nothing of...

The Wall

The Wall
  • Author(s): Douglas Jackson
  • Location(s): Cumbria, The North East (England)
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): AD 400

AD 400. Rome and its Empire are failing . . . Veteran cavalry commander Marcus Flavius Victor sets out with his regiment to make what may be his final tour of the forts along Hadrian’s Wall. Through a combination...

The Wharf Butcher

The Wharf Butcher
  • Author(s): Michael K Foster
  • Location(s): Newcastle upon Tyne
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

A serial killer is stalking Tyneside. But there is a pattern to his killings, his choice of victims, his method of slaughter. David Carlisle, a criminal profiler, is brought in to assist DCI Jack Mason with his task of...

Thou shalt Kill

Thou shalt Kill
  • Author(s): John Dean
  • Location(s): North Pennines
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): present

When a man is discovered murdered by crucifixion, an evangelical religious group falls under suspicion A dead body nailed to a shed unsettles even hardened detective Jack Harris. Despite being told that boundary feuds in allotments can easily come...

TO CATCH A LIE

TO CATCH A LIE
  • Author(s): John Dean
  • Location(s): North Pennines
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): contemporary

A murder investigation leads DCI Jack Harris to Scotland, but is it just a fishing expedition? When a man’s body is found on the Langdon Estate in the North Pennines, DCI Jack Harris suspects the death is connected to...

To Die Alone

To Die Alone
  • Author(s): John Dean
  • Location(s): North Pennines
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): present

Murder, animal cruelty, and vigilante justice drag DCI Jack Harris out of his quiet rural idyll. When the hunt for a missing man turns up a body deep in a forest in northern England, it is difficult to establish...

To Honour the Dead

To Honour the Dead
  • Author(s): John Dean
  • Location(s): North Pennines
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): present

Are the defacing of a town’s war memorial and the death of a WWII veteran connected? DCI Jack Harris investigates. The small town of Levton Bridge is beset by a spate of vandalism against its war memorials. Uniformed police...

When We Were Young

When We Were Young
  • Author(s): Dawn Goodwin
  • Location(s): Northumberland, North of England
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): 1992 and the Present Day

Four best friends. One of them is dead. Are their secrets safe? Uni friends Stacey, Paula, Bev and Valentina used to be inseparable until one weekend before graduation when nothing was ever the same again. Thirty years later, reunited...

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